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"LYME Disease is not in Australia" - don't dare tell that to Karen Smith and her family.

"If I hear this statement one more time, I think I will just have to scream," she said.

The Sarina mum has worked and raised three children, completed a four-year university degree and has just been granted a scholarship to complete a PhD.

When she could not get out of bed one day three years ago, she was told she was depressed.

Ms Smith said she is not sure how she, her three children, sister and nephew contracted Lyme Disease but there is no doubt in her mind it is what she has. Despite what her doctor was telling her, she knew she wasn't depressed.